FOR THE LOVE OF PHYSICS

In For the Love of Physics beloved MIT professor Walter Lewin whose riveting physics lectures made him a YouTube super star takes readers on a remarkably fun inventive and often wacky journey that brings the joys of physics to life For the Love of Physics captures Walter Lewin s extraordinary intellect passion for physics and brilliance as a teacher Bill Gates For more than thirty years as a renowned professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lewin s lectures made physics not only accessible but fun whether putting his head in the path of a wrecking ball supercharging himself with three hundred thousand volts of electricity or demonstrating why the sky is blue and clouds are white In For the Love of Physics Lewin takes readers on a marvelous journey opening our eyes as never before to the wonders of physics and its amazing ability to reveal the beauty and power embedded in our world Could it be true that we are shorter standing up than lying down Why can we snorkel no deeper than about one foot below the surface Why are the colors of a rainbow always in the same order can we stretch a hand out and touch one Using superbly clear and simple explanations of phenomena we ve always wondered about such as what the big bang would have sound